Real-life problems present several kinds of preferences. We focus on problems with both positive and negative preferences, that we call bipolar preference problems. Although seemi...
Stefano Bistarelli, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca R...
Abstract. We propose two algorithms achieving generalized arc consistency for the soft global cardinality constraint with variable-based violation and with value-based violation. T...
This paper presents an algorithm that achieves hyper-arc consistency for the soft alldifferent constraint. To this end, we prove and exploit the equivalence with a minimum-cost flo...
We consider soft constraint problems where some of the preferences may be unspecified. This models, for example, situations with several agents providing the data, or with possibl...
Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, ...
— A new call admission control (CAC) strategy based on the soft capacity constraint (SCC) concept is proposed for CDMA cellular systems. The use of the SCC concept allows maximiz...